Azure OpenAI "Current models" Retirement Scraper

What it does

Scrapes Microsoft's Learn page for Azure OpenAI model retirements: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirements
Extracts ONLY the Current models tables (ignores Fine-tuned and Default) across:
- Text (Text generation)
- Audio
- Image and video
- Embedding
Produces a combined CSV with a Type column.
Persists a local JSON snapshot for change detection between runs.
Writes an RSS feed with items for new rows or field changes (e.g., Retirement date changes).

THIS IS THE RSS FEED URL you want if you just want the info: https://conoro.github.io/azure-ai-model-retirements-rss/rss.xml

Using in Slack

make sure the built-in RSS app is installed in your workspace
add the RSS feed URL to a channel using /feed add https://conoro.github.io/azure-ai-model-retirements-rss/rss.xml

These steps only needed if running it yourself

Install

python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

python scrape_ms_retirements.py
# Or focus only on Text models:
python scrape_ms_retirements.py --only text

Outputs

CSV: /mnt/data/ms_model_retirements/output/current_models.csv
RSS: /mnt/data/ms_model_retirements/output/rss.xml
State: /mnt/data/ms_model_retirements/data/snapshot.json

Notes

First run creates a baseline snapshot and a single RSS item noting the baseline.
Subsequent runs include items for NEW rows and for any field updates among: Lifecycle status, Retirement date, Replacement model.
The feed uses the page's tab query param in item links (e.g., ?tabs=text) based on the row Type.

GitHub Actions

Add this file to your repo: .github/workflows/retirements.yml (included here). It runs the scraper twice per day (06:00 and 18:00 UTC), then commits any changes to:

output/current_models.csv
output/rss.xml
data/snapshot.json

Make sure your repository settings allow workflows to create commits:

No extra secrets are needed; it uses the default GITHUB_TOKEN with contents: write permission.

conoro/azure-ai-model-retirements-rss